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Software Development Engineer III/Senior Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Amazon for 6 years
February 9, 2013
Seattle, Washington
4.0
RecommendsPositive Outlook
Pros

Engineers are valued. A lot of focus on giving engineers challenging work.

Good technological challenges. A lot of interesting problems in the AWS space are challenging and need creativity.

High impact work. A lot of customers use AWS, and hence the impact is visible in terms of usage, growth, and customer feedback.

Cons

Design is owned by Principal Engineers. Sometimes it is hard to get the opportunity to design a system as it is owned by Principal Engineers.

On-call duty can be bad on some teams, but it is okay for some teams.

Advice to Management

Focus on operational pain reduction as much as new features.

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